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Chinese supermarket bandits nabbed; getaway motorcycle, stolen items retrieved
Swift thinking and good investigating has led to the capture of the two motorcycle bandits who robbed the “Good Life Supermarket” at Belevedere Village on Tuesday night.
The men have been identified as Daniel Grant, 20, of Williamsburg Village, and Shawn Thompson, 19, of Rose Hall Town, Corentyne, Berbice.
The robbery was caught on security cameras.
According to reports reaching this publication, two ranks attached to the Rose Hall Town outpost in their bid to catch the perpetrators, swiftly acted on information provided to them and arrested the two youths at their respective homes.
Upon information received the following day that the men were seen at an abandoned house in Rose Hall, the ranks ventured to the location and conducted a search when the motorcycle reportedly used in the daring robbery was discovered along with a helmet that one the men was seen wearing in the surveillance footage that night.
A DVD player was also found, fitting the description of an item that was reported stolen from one Permaul Lachna of Lot 220 Topoo Village, Corentyne, Berbice on New Year’s Day. Lachna was asked to report to the station to identify the item, and he identified the DVD Player as his.
The motorcycle was identified as his as well since he also had reported that stolen.
Lachna told media operatives that on December 31, last he was working at the Nigg Drainage pump when two men attacked him.
“I was attacked by bandits at Nigg Drainage Pump after four; dem take away my DVD player, my motorcycle, my cell phone. I had $6000 in my pocket; they take that too.”
The man stated that one of the men brandished a gun whilst the other was equipped with a cutlass. “One hit meh with the gun and the other one had a cutlass. When dem finish rob meh dem padlock the doors from outside with the keys and gone”.
The loot from the Supermarket and the cell phone that was stolen was not recovered.
The police source related that there is enough evidence to charge Grant and Thompson for both offences.
It is alleged that on Tuesday. proprietors of the Good Life Supermarket, located along the Belvedere Public Road was invaded by two men armed with a cutlass and shotgun on a motorcycle.
Huang Jun Xiong, 36, and his partner, 36-year-old Zhang Bi Hang were at the time tending to the remaining customers for the evening, when the men on the motorcycle rode in and ordered them along with three customers who were still in the Supermarket to lie flat, facedown.
The 15-minute ordeal was all caught on the business’s surveillance cameras. The footage showed the men arriving at the premises on a motorcycle, one armed with a cutlass and the other with a shotgun. The perpetrators were seen barging into the supermarket and ordering the couple to lie on the ground along with three customers who were still inside. The male proprietor seemed a bit reluctant to follow their orders and with that received a gun hit to the shoulder that took him down.
The owner’s wife, Zhang, exited the cashier counter to save her husband from being further hit, but as she hovered over Huang she was kicked to her left side by one of the armed men.
The men whose faces were disguised with handkerchiefs tied to their mouth and one with a hoodie over his head and the other, a helmet, continued to hit at the couple with the cutlass. One of the perpetrators left the area where the owners were being held and ventured to another part of the building, he reportedly went upstairs with Huang and collected $350,000.
After about five minutes the man armed with a cutlass returned as the other demanded that they empty the cash register. The sum of $150,000 was allegedly handed over from the register. They were also seen taking a cell phone from Zhang while she was lying on the ground. Both escaped on their motorcycle after receiving the cash and valuables.
The men donned a haversack and wore dark coloured clothing. The owners and customers in the supermarket were seen scrambling to exit the building after the men reportedly escaped with the keys to the automated garage doors. They had tried to lock the customers and owners inside the building.
Divisional Commander, Ian Amsterdam, confirmed that the men escaped with approximately $500,000 in cash, one iPhone 6 and some other valuables. A source disclosed that the men were reportedly staking out the business and waiting for the perfect opportunity to pounce on the couple.
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